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![]() | 2012/3 |
![]() | Department for Health |
![]() | 6 |
![]() | Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
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Semester 2 |
![]() | CW 100% |
![]() | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
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![]() | Aims & Learning Objectives: To develop a basic understanding of the human musculo-skeletal system. On completion of this unit students should be able to: * Classify and identify skeletal bones and muscles. * Describe the structure and function of the muscular system. * Demonstrate an understanding of muscle actions in human movements. Content: Skeletal construction; structure of bone and connective tissue, types of bone: long, thin, flat, irregular. Axial and appendicular skeleton. Names of major bones. Joint types; immovable, slightly moveable, freely moveable (synovial). Muscular system: muscle tissue, names of major muscles. Types of movement; flexion, extension, rotation, adduction, abduction, circumduction. Relationship of muscular system to skeletal system; identification of major muscle groups, origins, insertions and actions of main muscles. Practical analysis of limb movement. Types of muscular contraction including; isometric, isotonic, isokinetic, concentric, eccentric. |
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HL10034 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following programmes:Department for Health
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